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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2015
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Wesley Kim, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Andrew Wolter, San Francisco, CA (US);
Victor Tsou, Oakland, CA (US);
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for collecting customer information of users at a centralized location and utilizing the information in an intelligent manner to assist customers in improving spending habits and in meeting budgetary goals. In some instances, the centralized location is a payment service that functions to both authorize payment instruments of users for costs of transactions conducted at the merchant, and to collect, generate and propagate budgetary profiles, to make budgetary suggestions and perform budgetary operations with regard to interactions of the merchants and the users.